11/19/15

Were things improving by the 20th century?

Keywords:
Redemption
governments
De jure
De facto

Do Now
Did
Reconstructio
n fail? Discuss
with your
partner.

Learning Objectives:
To explain the black response to the
discrimination.

Were black Americans happy by

1877?
Happiness rating
6
4
2
0
-2
-4
-6

Happiness
rating

Why Reconstruction failed?

Federal
governm
ent

State
governm
ent

Black
inaction

Other
groups

Post- Reconstruction
America
The policy of granting
civil rights to ex-slaves
greatly alienated many
white southerners. The
result was that when
southern politicians had a
chance to regain political
control of the states in
the 1870s, they set about
reversing the progress
that African Americans
had made with the use of
Black Codes

The role of the Supreme

Court What would be the
impact on Black
Americans?
Slaughterhouse decision (1873)
The rights of citizens should stay
under state control.
US v. Cruikshank (1876)
Federal officers were only
required to take action against
states not individuals.
US v. Reece (1876)
Court recognised the right of
states to exclude people from
voting with the use of voting

Work with
whites

Move to
another
area/count
ry

What
would you
do?

Accept and
make the
most of your
opportunities

Protest
through
the courts

Response
Co-operate
Emigration/
Migration

Political protest
Accommodationism

Positives

Negatives

Response

Positives

Negatives

No legal
segregation
Greater
change of
voting

Discrimination
continuedBarred from trade
unions.

Co-operate
Emigration/
Migration

Political protest
Accommodationism

Testimony of
determination

Plessy Vs Ferguson
Development of
Social Darwinism.
Hierarchy or races
Blacks natural
underclass.
The verdict of the
Plessy V. Ferguson
case confirmed this
for some.

Booker T.
W E B Du Bois
Washington
Look back at your homework task, what did you
find out about them.

Guess who?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

He developed the Tuskegee Institute.

He helped found the NAACP.
He edited a magazine called The Crisis.
He demanded full civil rights and an end to segregation.
He believed the black man should at first acquire skills
before seeking equality.
6. He was the first African American to gain a PHD from
Harvard University.
7. He said In all things that are purely social we can be
separate as the fingers, yet as the hand in all things
essential to mutual progress.
8. He advised Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Cleveland.
9. He helped to found the Niagara Movement in 1905.
10. He was often seen to represent intellectual elite.
11. He was seen as inactive in challenging violence or political

Difference in opinion
Speech at the Niagara
Movement

Up From Slavery

We will not be satisfied to

take one jot or title less than
our full manhood rights. We
claim for ourselves every
single right that belongs to a
free-born American, political,
civil and social; and until we
get these rights we will
never cease to protest and
assail the ears of America.
The battle we wage is not for
ourselves alone but for all
true Americans.

I believe it is the duty of the

Negro - as the greater part of the
race is already doing - to deport
himself modestly in regard of
political claims, depending upon
the slow but sure influences that
proceed from the possessions of
property, intelligence, and high
character for the full recognition
of his political rights. I think that
the according of the full exercise
of political rights is going to be a
matter of natural, slow growth,
not an overnight affair.